ceri

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɛ.ɾi]

ceri m (uncountable)

1. cerium

Learned borrowing from Latin cēreus. Doublet of ciri, a semilearned borrowing.

ceri (feminine cèria, masculine plural ceris, feminine plural cèries)

1. waxen

• cera

• “ceri”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “ceri”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “ceri” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ceri” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From English cherry, from Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), both ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin. Mostly replaced both kersen and kers.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛri]
• Hyphenation: cè‧ri

ceri (plural ceri-ceri)

1. cherry:
   1. a small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem
   2. Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries
   3. the wood of a cherry tree

• kers, kersen
• seri

• “ceri” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ri/
• Rhymes: -eri
• Hyphenation: cé‧ri

ceri m

1. plural of cero

• crei

ceri

1. inflection of cerēt:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): [tʃerʲ]

ceri

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cere

ceri f

1. indefinite genitive/dative singular of ceară

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛrɪ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkeːri/, /ˈkɛri/

Related to Old Irish cáer (“berry”).^[1] Outside of Celtic, likely related to Latin carīna (“half of a walnut shell; ship keel”); see there for more.^[2]

ceri f (collective, singulative cerïen)

1. rowan trees

   Synonym: criafol

2. hips (fruit), especially of dogrose or briar

   Synonym: egroes

3. medlar trees

   Synonym: merysbrennau

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• cari (colloquial)

ceri

1. (literary) second-person singular present indicative/future of caru